How Trees Help Our Water - Even Trees in Your Yard

Planting trees offers tree-mendous benefits for our water. Even when trees are planted in your backyard they help improve water for the community. Here are some of the benefits trees offer:

• Improve the drinking water
  
• Reduce flooding
  
• Filter pollutants before they reach the water
  
• Stabilize stream banks and help reduce erosion and sediment pollution
  
• Shade the water keeping it cool
  
• Provide countless benefits for aquatic ecosystem
  
• Improve economic and recreational opportunities like fishing and kayaking
  

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